HMA Ships GAWLER and LISMORE, (minesweepers) and two motor minesweepers, picked up 1353 survivors from the troop ship YOMA, sunk by a German submarine off Derna, Libya.
Operation Lilliput ended. Australian small warships and transports carried 2400 troops and 40,000 tons of supplies from Milne Bay to Buna, to defeat the Japanese bid to take Port Moresby. HMA Ships BALLARAT, BENDIGO, BOWEN, BROOME, BUNBURY, COLAC, ECHUCA, GLENELG, GYMPIE, KAPUNDA, KATOOMBA, LATROBE, LITHGOW, PIRIE, POLARIS, STELLA, WAGGA, and WHYALLA, were engaged in the operation.